Perceptual and physiological responses to Jackson Pollock's fractals

RP Taylor, B Spehar, P Van Donkelaar… - Frontiers in human …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Fractals have been very successful in quantifying the visual complexity exhibited by many
natural patterns, and have captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike. Our …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical regularities in art: Relations with visual coding and perception

DJ Graham, C Redies - Vision research, 2010 - Elsevier
Since at least 1935, vision researchers have used art stimuli to test human response to
complex scenes. This is sensible given the “inherent interestingness” of art and its relation to …

Viewing artworks: contributions of cognitive control and perceptual facilitation to aesthetic experience

GC Cupchik, O Vartanian, A Crawley, DJ Mikulis - Brain and cognition, 2009 - Elsevier
When we view visual images in everyday life, our perception is oriented toward object
identification. In contrast, when viewing visual images as artworks, we also tend to …

[BOOK][B] The aesthetics of emotion: Up the down staircase of the mind-body

GC Cupchik - 2016 - books.google.com
Gerald C. Cupchik builds a bridge between science and the humanities, arguing that
interactions between mind and body in everyday life are analogous to relations between …

Authenticating Pollock paintings using fractal geometry

RP Taylor, R Guzman, TP Martin, GDR Hall… - Pattern Recognition …, 2007 - Elsevier
Jackson Pollock's paintings are currently valued up to US $75 M, triggering discussions that
attributation procedures featuring subjective visual assessments should be complimented by …

Computer vision and computer graphics analysis of paintings and drawings: An introduction to the literature

DG Stork - Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 13th …, 2009 - Springer
In the past few years, a number of scholars trained in computer vision, pattern recognition,
image processing, computer graphics, and art history have developed rigorous computer …

Kolmogorov compression complexity may differentiate different schools of Orthodox iconography

D Peptenatu, I Andronache, H Ahammer, R Taylor… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The complexity in the styles of 1200 Byzantine icons painted between 13th and 16th from
Greece, Russia and Romania was investigated through the Kolmogorov algorithmic …

Performance of a high-dimensional R/S method for Hurst exponent estimation

J Alvarez-Ramirez, JC Echeverria… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2008 - Elsevier
An extension of the R/S method to estimate the Hurst exponent of high-dimensional fractals
is proposed. The method's performance was adequate when tested with synthetic surfaces …

Fractals in art and nature: why do we like them?

B Spehar, RP Taylor - Human vision and electronic imaging …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Fractals have experienced considerable success in quantifying the visual complexity
exhibited by many natural patterns, and continue to capture the imagination of scientists and …

Structural stability and thermodynamics of artistic composition

ST Chan, E Fried - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
Inspired by the way that digital artists zoom out of the canvas to assess the visual impact of
their works, we introduce a conceptually simple yet effective metric for quantifying the clarity …